Summary: Do you long for Christ’s return? John was given a glimpse of the glorious Christ. Seeing Christ through Revelation helps us to appreciate Him more and see our lives in the light of the hope we have in Him.

• I believe it will change us too, and help us appreciate Him and see His return in a new light.

I will share a series of messages through the book of Revelation.

• And see through the eyes of John the Person of Jesus Christ in all His glory.

• The return of Christ will be “The Beginning of the Very Best”, Max Lucado says, I borrowed his term for this series.

Let’s read Rev 1:1-9.

• John describes this book as “the revelation of Jesus Christ” – this is the theme of this book.

• It’s not primarily about prophecy, or symbolism, or future events, but Jesus Christ.

• This book unveils Jesus to us in such a way no man has ever known.

John had a unique experience.

• He is the only man who has seen Christ more ways than one.

• He was one of the three disciples closest to Jesus. He saw Him bodily, and then in His resurrected form, and finally in His glorious state (through revelations).

• He was a prisoner placed in the island of Patmos “because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.” (1:9). And he was given visions of Christ in heaven.

No one then, except John through these visions, had seen Jesus in such a complete way.

• Not Mary or Joseph, not his step-brothers and sisters or even the other disciples. They cannot fully understand who He was while He was on earth.

• Through Revelation, God lifts the veil and enable John (and us) to see Jesus in a way that those who walked and lived with Him on earth could not.

No wonder John says in 1:3 “Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.”

The first thing John did was to praise God, and draw our attention to what Christ has done for us.

• Rev 1:5-6 “…and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father-to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.”

Do you long for Christ’s return? John was given a glimpse of the glorious Christ. Seeing Christ through Revelation helps us to appreciate Him more and see our lives in the light of the hope we have in Him.

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